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Teenager Brutally Stabs 9-Year-Old Neighbor Eight Times
Alyssa journaled that she loved slitting Elizabeth Olton’s throat.
This true story of 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante murdering 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten is enough to rattle us all. This wasn’t the first time Alyssa had done something disturbing, but it sure is what got her name and face plastered all across America.
Healthy, But Only On The Surface
Alyssa moved to the small, tight-knit community of St. Martins in 2002. That move, too, wasn’t a happy one. With an alcoholic mother and an imprisoned father, her childhood was anything but happy. Thankfully, her grandparents intervened and took custody of Alyssa and her three younger siblings.
Others thought the 8-year-old Alyssa gelled well enough into the new town. Classmates liked her, while the neighbours trusted her. However, everything was far from perfect underneath.
Alyssa’s YouTube account gave a chilling glimpse into her deteriorating mental health. The channel listed killing and cutting as her hobbies and recorded some disturbing home videos. In one of them, she…
